h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Great selection of clouds on those plates you linked to! F22169892?thread=8325167

Reminds me of my aunt, who was a watercolour artist - in her youth she painted mountain scenes with stormy clouds, in her middle years she painted pastoral scenes with fluffy clouds and in her later years she painted seascapes with wispy clouds.

I'm fortunate to have one of her mountain scenes in my house - like you, I like scary and thrilling cloudscapes

Climate analysts have studied English landscape paintings from the 18th Century.

"] Historical climatology is the study of historical changes in climate and their effect on human history and development. The primary sources include written records such as sagas, chronicles, maps and local history literature as well as pictorial representations such as paintings, drawings and even rock art."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_variability_and_change

Two huge apartment buildings are being built next to the Trailer Park I live in. The builders gave us money to compensate for any inconveniences caused by the buildings. One such inconvenience is that the buildings may block the sunlight, casting part of the Park in shadow at times. I think I will still get the morning sun even in mid-december. It might be visible a little later in the day, that' all.